| Contents |
Introduction : Rethinking Brahms/ Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips -- Part I. Intellectual Contexts. Brahms in the Schumann Library / Reuben Phillips ; Johannes Brahms, Connoisseur of Graphic Arts / Styra Avins ; Settling for Second Best : Brahms's Männerchor-Lieder in Historical Context / David Brodbeck ; Hearing and Seeing Brahms's Harps / Jane Hines -- Part II. Rehearing Brahms. Brahms and the Unreliable Narrative / Janet Schmalfeldt ; The Transmission and Reception of Courtly Love Poetry in Late Folksong Settings by Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Wilhelm Arnold, and Wilhelm Tappert / Loretta Terrigno ; Rehearing Brahms's Late Intermezzi : The Eternal Recurrence of Reflection / Tekla Babyak ; Joachim and Brahms in the Spring and Summer of 1853 : Formative Influences and Performative Identities Reconsidered / Katharina Uhde ; Doesn't Play Well With Others : Performance and Embodiment in Brahms's Chamber Music with Piano / Anna Scott -- Part III. Analytical Perspectives. First-Theme Syntax in Brahms's Sonata Forms / Julian Horton ; Formal Elision in the Chamber Music of Mendelssohn and Brahms : A Case-Study in Romantic Formenlehre / Benedict Taylor ; Compositional Range versus Compositional Ideal Type : Some Reflections on Brahms and Dvořák / Peter H. Smith ; Intentional Transgressions : Transformation and Prolongation in Selected Works by Brahms / Frank Samarotto -- Part IV. Monuments and Memorialization. Images, Monuments, Constructs : Johannes Brahms in the Culture of Remembrance / Wolfgang Sandberger ; Templates for Grief : Brahms's Requiem and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, 1939-1949 / Martha Sprigge ; 'Aimez-vous Brahms?' The History of a Question / Daniel Beller-McKenna -- Part V. Afterlives of Brahms. Brahms's Serious Songs in the Orchestral Imagination : Two Episodes in the Arrangement History of Op. 121 / Frankie Perry ; Hearing Rihm Hearing Brahms : Symphonie 'Nähe fern' and the Future of Nostalgia / Nicole Grimes ; Specters and 'Derangements' : Michael Finnissy's Summonings of Brahms the Progressive / Edward Venn. |
| Abstract |
"Do we need another book on Brahms? After all, among those figures with an established place in the Western musical canon, Brahms seems particularly notable for the constant outpouring of discourse and discussion that his music has occasioned over the past 170 years. We can observe this in the aftermath of the composer's death in Vienna: in lengthy eulogies that appeared in the Viennese press, and in the range of memoirs and biographical studies that were published in the early decades of the twentieth century. Brahms's music had also been extensively discussed in print during his own lifetime. In 1892 he was the subject of essays by Wilibald Nagel and Philipp Spitta that sought to make sense of his works historically, either by describing the composer as Beethoven's successor or through reference to a larger swathe of music history that stretched back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the mid-1850s his published compositions were analysed in detail in a variety of German-language music periodicals. We might trace the start of all this intellectual preoccupation with Brahms's music back to the celebrated and often cited essay 'Neue Bahnen' by Robert Schumann, that was published in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik at the end of October 1853"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022010890 |
| ISBN | 9780197541739 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
